Remove -a option for safety reasons (but keep --adopt).

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Adam Spiers 2012-02-18 14:20:07 +00:00
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* Changes in version 2.1.4
** Remove -a option (--adopt still available)
As --adopt is the only option which allows stow to modify files, it
is considered potentially dangerous (especially for stow package
directories which are not managed by a version control system).
Therefore it seems prudent to require a bit more effort from the
user to enable this option, minimising the change of enabling it
via a typo.
** Improve error message when stow package is not found.
The error message displayed a path to the missing stow package